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The top 100 most costly EU regulations

Open Europe recently published a list of the 100 most costly EU regulations. See this PDF.

Four directives account for 53% of what will be an £184bn cost by 2020:

  1. The Working Time Directive, to cost the UK economy £32.8 bn by 2020;
  2. EU's Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package, to cost the UK economy £28.2 bn by 2020;
  3. Energy Perfomance Certificates for buildings, a.k.a Home Information Packs, to cost the UK economy £20.2 bn by 2020;
  4. Temporary Agency Workers Directive, to be implemented in 2011 and set to cost the UK economy £15.6 bn by 2020.

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